Day: November 8, 2015

The concepts behind “social networking” aren’t anything new – ever since there have been humans, we have been looking for ways to connect, network, and promote with one another – but they’ve taken on an entirely new meaning (and momentum) in the digital age. Where we used to have handshakes, word-of-mouth referrals, andRead More

Autumn DePoe-Hughes captured on video a rather bizarre scene at Manchester Fort Shopping Park this past summer. If car doors were locked, they could not be unlocked. The reverse was true as well. And, annoying car alarms defied any attempt to silence them. DePoe-Hughes told John Leyden of The Register, “Someone else had completeRead More

Desktop PCs are not going away anytime soon, and nor are traditional laptops or slate-style tablets. But all are retreating into their core niches and therefore selling in decreasing numbers. In future, most of us are likely to use hybrid tablet/laptops. The history of client devices in recent decades is essentially one ofRead More

If printing to a non-cloud-ready printer on Android has you confounded, learn how to add a manufacturer-ready print service so you can print to networked printers on your LAN. Thanks to Google cloud services, printing from your Android device is actually quite easy — this is especially true if you have a Google-approved,Read More

Loyalty cards and coupon offers could be the key to getting Kiwis to embrace New Zealand’s first digital wallet. Digital wallets work by linking bank account cards to smartphones. Shoppers choose which account they want to use and then pay for items by placing their phone over a card reader. Now,Read More

If you’re an introvert with a Facebook profile you may be doing more damage to your social capital than if you skipped the social network altogether. New Zealand-based researchers looking at whether Facebook is beneficial for some and detrimental to others have found that looking at people’s wonderful lives on Facebook canRead More

How do fraudsters “cash out” stolen credit card data? Increasingly, they are selling in-demand but underpriced products on eBay that they don’t yet own. Once the auction is over, the auction fraudster uses stolen credit card data to buy the merchandise from an e-commerce store and have it shipped to the auction winner. Because the auctionRead More

If you were hoping to get a better base communications apps in the Ubuntu Touch OTA-8, you are in luck. It has been revealed by developers, Canonical Ltd., that the over the air update is going to bring you better SMS and telephony apps. ?ukasz Zemczak aka ‘sil2100’ of Canonical provided an update onRead More